Car-door frame.



J. W. RUMSEY & W. H. SHEASBY.

GAR DOORPRAME.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 25. 1913.

Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

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Waxman J. W; RUMSEY &.w. H. sHEAsBY;

GAR DOQR FRAME. APPLICATION FILED JAN, 25, 1913 Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

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GAR DOOR FRAME.

lAPPLICATION FILED JAN. 25, 1913.

Patented'Nov. 25, 1913.

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J. W. RUMSEY.& W. H. SHEASBY.

can Doon FRAME'. APPLIOATION Hum un. 25.1s`13.

Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

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' .JAMES W. RUMSEY AND WILLIAM H. SHEASBY, l01E' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

GA3-Doon FRAME.

Patented Nov. e5, i913.

To all 107mm 'ii may concern Be it known that we, JAMES WV. RUMsnY andWILLIAM Il. SHEASBY, citizens of the Unitedl States, and residents ofChicago, county -fof Cook, State of Illinois,have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Car-Door Frames, of which the following is afull and clear specification7 reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of afreight car provided-with our invention, parts being broken awayFig. 2is a horizontal sectional view on the.lin`e72,.2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 adetail vertical sectionall view on the lineV 8-3 of Fi 1; Fig. 4 ahorizontal sectional viwon t1eiline4-4 .Of Fig. 1; Fig 5 a verticalsectional view on the line 5-5 cf Fig. l; Fig. 6' a similar `view on theline 6-6 or Fig. 1;.Fig. 7 o.' perspective view of the doorframe-members detached from the car body, with parts broken away for thepurposes of better illustration; Fig.

8 a detail horizontal sectional view show-` ing a slight modification;Fig. 9 is a lside elevation or a car yshowin a slight modification ofour structure; ig. 10 a perspective view ofthe door` frame membersdetached from the carbody, parts being broken away for the purpose ofbetter illustration; Fig. 11 a section on the line V11-11 of Fig. 9; andFig. 12l a section on the line 12-12 of Fig. 9.

The object of this invention is to so brace and strengthen the doorframe structure of' wooden freight cars that the parts shall not becomedistorted or disalined `by the bulging or bowing strains of the freightor` the strains due to severe bumping action or bad road bed conditions,thereby maintaining the door members in such relation to each other asto at all times insure a close fit of the door, as more fullyhereinafter set forth.

The door a may be hung and guided in any suitable manner. XVe haveillustrated the door as having its upper edge housed between a pair ofdepending steel housing plates l), whose inturncd lower edges form railsc for 'the support of the hanger rollers (l, said housing plates beingsecured by a series ot' horizontal bolts c which extend through theupper edges of the housing plates and an intermediate beam f, as well asthrough the usual longitudinal roof beam g. The lower edge of the dooris slidingly confined to the side of the car by means oi" a rail hbolted to the side of the car by means of a series of bolts z' extendingthrough said rail as Well as through the siding y' and the usuallongitudinal sill le of the under-frame. The flooring? nof the car thatisV supported on the sill lc and eX- tends through the door-way and isprovided with the usual weer plate m extending along the edge of thedoor-way.

As will be seen, the top side of the door way consists of the track railo, the beam g andthe intermediate siding boards j ot the car. The twoposts of the door frame each consists of a stamped or forged sheet metalshell of suiiicient thickness. to give the necessary rigidity. Each'post consists of an inner plate member o which fits against the liningboards member q which fits against the side faces of p of the car, ajamb or facing the wood filling posts r and e, and an outer plate`member" t which tits against the outer face of the filler bar or posts, this member lying parallel with the inner member o and atyni-p'glitangles to the intermediate member Q. ach metal shell is.secured in place by means of one or more horizontal bolts upassedhorizontally through the members o and t and the intermediatewoodwork. The jamb or facing member g is longitudinally corrugated toform a. vertical rib o projecting' into the door--way slightly. Thesiding boards j are clamped .between the filler posts r and .s andextend into `the channel u but not entirely to the bottom of thechannel, thereby leaving a` vertical space for entrapping andcarliyingoff any water that may leak past the ller post s. l

The outer plate members t of the posts arc flush with the front edge ofthe sill plate 'mI and the edge of the inner track fla-nge b, so thatthe door may shut closely against these parts and thus completely closethe door opening of the car. The jamb orl fao ing membersg of the poststerminate at their lower ends against the Hoor and at their upper endsagainst the members which constitute tbe top wall of the door opening.The inner plate members o however are extended both upwardly anddownwardly, the upper extensions w being bolted to the inner face of thebeam g by' the above described bolts c and also to the carlines or othertransverse beams of the roloflby means of bolts while the depending7extensions y are extended through the loor of the car frame' beam'labhorizontalbolts e and Valso the'above-de'sori ed bolts i: Theouter platemembers t' are-'likewise extended upwardly and als@ downwardly, theupper extensions -ebeingk bolted to the car structure by the abovedescribed bolts e and thelower extensions being fastened to the car'structure by the aforesaid bolts e' and z'.l Preferably the upperextensions ai are bent. so as to fit around back o the innerI housingmember ZJ fand are desirably gained into the face of-the siding boardsy',fwhile the'd'epending sittensions b aredesirably bentjaround underthe filler piece a and likewise-gained into the .face of the sidingboards the lower extremities or' these parts Z1 being clamped to theside of the car by the guide\rail h.

in the ies Sie@ of the doot@ enig, the front facing strip t has the e`el 'remote from the door opening leentl outwardly and then toward thedoor opening `to form a vertical channel o, which is an integralextension of the door post andfis adaptedtoL receive'the frontedge ofthe door when the .door is closed, the 'extreme vert-ical edge of theouter member of the channel being de# llected slightly outwardly toguide the edge of the doorl into the channel.A A vertical filling pieced is inserted in the channel to" receive the impact of the front edge ofthe v door when the door is pushed in to the chan- A nel. At the rearedge of the .door t-he inner face 'of the door is provided-with a platec which is adapted to overlap an extension of the adjacent front plate t'and thereby 4not only form an overlapping water-proof jointr at therear edge of the door but a so furnish means which will coperate withthe chan? nel c to cam the door to a tight closure.

In Fig. 8 a moditication is shown in which the channel forming parts cis made of a separate piece and riveted to 'an outwardly turned flangeon the facing strip t, the inner that withthe ordinary car structuresthisy lbulging of the frames and doors is frequently so great as topermit the car t'obe burglarized without breaking the seals on 4thedoors. Vith our construction the bulging strains are all resisted by thesteel car posts which are tied andbraced firmly not only to the rootstructure of the car but 4whic also to the under frame of the car. Itiswell known that with cars of the ordinary construction the car isfrequently, b reason of uneven road bed conditions sub]ccte d toy.twisting or distorting strains and 'these strains are so great at timesas to distort the door frames and door hanging and guiding-devices'sutliciently to eitlier disconnect the doors entirely or to completelydestroy their fit. Such troubles as these are coinpletely avoided by ourimproved structure since the door frame and the door suspending anduiding means are connected upv into a unitary structure, the variousmem-- bers of which are rigidly tied and braced together. It is alsowell known fact that under severe bumping strains .the cars as`ordinarily constructed are frequently sodisg torted or bumpedtipw-ardly in the center. i `as to completely dislodge and disconnectthe doors from the cars. This is due to the fact' 8S l that thedistorting tendency reaches its maximum aboutthe center ot the car,tending to hump or bend' the car body upwardly at the center. YVith ourconstruction the 'car kbody is stilened about midway its len h.l 90

just 'where the greatest upward benfing tendency takes place, and thusresists this bending or distorting tendency and distrib- :utes thestrain throughout the cnr body, thus l preventing the car doors and doorposts and connected'devices from being seriously injured from severebumping strains. It willt-hus be seen thatour structure*l is eminentlyadapted to withstand all the strains of service abuse.

It happens occasionally that the carlines in a car do not suilicientlyaline with the steel door posts to make 4it practicable to tie thevcarlines directly to the extensions lui of the posts. In such cases asthese, the carlines may be tied to the housing members b ofthe door haner as shown in Figs. 11 and 12 the aforesaif bolts e beingemployed forthis purpose and a suitable 'bracket or angle iron f 'beingemployed toconnect the inner 110 ends of the bolts to the carline. At times it maybe necessary to extend the 4housing members a short distance to the leftof the usual termination, as shown in Eig. 9, in which view the carlinesfall just outside of thef two door posts as indicated bythe lines 11e-11on whic Fig. 11 is'takeni It may also be desirablein some cases tostrengthen4 the door frame by Aadding thereto the strength of the outermember ofthehousing 1 idly tie the two members together and to '12'5 theposts and carlines. 'In'Fig. 11 the two housing members areshown asconnected to the carline through the bracket f lvvhile 1nv Fig. l2 thehousing members areconnectedhousing member is added to the inner mempber as Well as to the intermediate filler rail 'to greatly increa'se thestiffness of the door frame as a unitary structure.

To still further add\to the rigidity of the d oor frame structure andthus hold .all the parts in alinement against the severest kind ofstrains from service abuse, we may connect the two housing members bdirectly and permanently together so as to form practically a unitarystructure in itself. This may be done in a variety of ways. -In Fig. 1lWe have shown an inverted channel iron g riv-l Y eted between the upperedges of the housing members and forming in effect a sort of ex tensionof the rail block f, whose lower edge will not in this instance belextended m'to Vthe housing. This bar g may be of roll'ed or cast metaland may have any dimensions which are needed to give to the structurethe desired strength. of this channel bar depend into the housing,whereas in Fig. 12 the flanges extend upwardly and the loweredge of thetrack rail f depends into this channel bar g so. as to receive throughit the bolts e. This chan nel bar g" may, and preferably does, extendthe full length of the housing members, as shown in Fig. 10.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In combination with a wooden box car having a. door opening in itsSide wall, of a sheet metal door post rigidly bolted to the carstructure at each side ofthe door opening and extending the full heightthereof, each of these metal posts being provided with an extension atits upper end and a depending extension at its lower end, a metaldoor-hanger-housing rail member affixed to the ar structure above thedoor opening and bolted to said upper extensions of the door, osts andadoor guiding rail bolted tothecar structure along below the lower edgepf the door opening and rigidly In Fig. ll the flanges aiixed to theaforesaid depending extensions of the door posts.

2. In combination with a Wooden freight lcar, having a door opening inone side wall, of sheet steel posts fastenedto the woodwork at therespectife sides of the door opening, eac'h postr having upwardextensions, means for rigidly fasteningiithe, posts to the'carstructure, a pair of depending hanger housings and means rigidly con-vnecting the upper edges of these housings together, and additional meansconnect-ing the housings to the upper extensions of saidposts, for thepurpose'set forth.

3. vIn combinati/on with a wooden freight car,having a door opening inone vside Wall, of 'sheet metal postsfastened to the woodwork at therespective sides of the door opening, each post having upwardextensions,means for rigidly fastening the posts to the car structure, a pair ofdepending hanger housings and means rigidly vconnecting the upper edgesof these housings together, and additional Imeans connecting thehousings to the upper extensions of said posts, together with additionalmeans for rigidly attaching said connected housings vto the carlinesofthe ear structure.

4. Incombinationwith a box car having a door opening Within its side'wall,-a sheet metal 'door .postaflixed to one of the wood -door posts,and each consisting of a facing plate g abutting againstlthe face of thedoor post wood members, an inner plate o and an outer plate t and boltsfastening said meinbers o and" t against the car structure, said facingmember g being provided with a vertical' bead or corruga'tion projectingaway from the face of the wood door post members to form a verticaldrain channel o.

'In testimony whereof we hereunto aliix our signatures in the presenceof two Witnesses this 24th day of January 1913.

JAMES W. 'RUMsEr y WiLLIAM n. sHEAsBY. Witnesses H. J. BOE,

M. J. EGLEs'ron.

